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Just crested 10k. Last weekend was eaten by locusts and my awful day-job. Ran much of the next 10k lines past my dear wife; a 48-year old man writing a SF story about a 23 year-old girl needs direxion. Time! Where to make time! I envy you singles out there when it comes to writing; I've a house, fam...

This is my first with NNWR. I've heard mention of it, here on LS before. The timing, like so many things as I get older, is suspiciously fortuitous. As I mention in my WordPress post (see sig line), I'd all the elements of a story about my mind, but was willing to do almost anything rather than sit ...

Keeping up our central Ohio tradition, we once again hosted a panel at Matsuricon in Columbus. Although the turnout was not as good as the 91 people we had back in January's Ohayocon, we still had fun and had a lively discussion with out audience. If anyone is interested, a link to our PowerPoint ca...

"...I believe it was Kurt Vonnegut that said, "Start as close to the ending as possible." And like everything else, he ripped that off from the SF community he was parasitic upon. No wonder Niven and Pournelle put him in Hell in their take on "Inferno." In many cases - not ...

Firstly, thanks for the Pixar link; very, very interesting. I'd like to take exception to one or two things, but I notice that they have oceans of money and I do not; perhaps they are more right than I. I don't believe you should have an ending "locked in" until you've actually reached the...

"The best place to start a story is in the middle." -- Jerry Pournelle. However, depending on what story you're telling, you don't want to leave your readers clueless. If you're on a different planet, a little about the colonization would be nice. If it's swords/sorcery, perhaps a small (s...

I imagine when there are more VNs that stray from high school adventures, there will be more older VN players. Word, indeed. While our current flagship product, OTChi Kocchi , is set in college, it's obviously not that much of a stretch of the story to see how it's similar to Japanese "high sc...

2dt wrote:Very cool. I wasn't even aware such a convention existed lol. Is there like a video recording of anything you guys presented?

There was a fellow in the front row of our Panel making a video recording, but I'm as yet unable to find it on the interwebs; if I do, I'll be sure to post a link to it.

Central Ohio's largest anime convention. For two years an attendee. Last year, also a Panelist, hosting "Making a Visual Novel with Ren'Py," with an attendance of fifty five, to this year hosting another Panel, "Making & Marketing a Visual Novel," attendance of ninety one, as...

Did you set the play store key in options.rpy? Yes... I added the lines at the end of the options.rpy file: init python: build.google_play_key = "xyz" build.google_play_salt = (a, b, ...) Where xyz is the huge license key string and a,b,... are the tuple of 20 bytes. It will run under Ren...

The good news is that so long as I create a single, but large, .apk file, things seem to run just fine . The issue is when using Ren'Py to make expansion APKs. For the same demo, I get these in my bin folder: OTChiKocchiDemo-1.1-release.apk 6336 kb main.2.com.otchikocchi.demo.obb 160383 kb When I've...

A second spin-off of our commercial flagship, OTChi Kocchi . Three weeks ago we released OK! Dinners! featuring the four main characters of our VN. This time around, the protagonist, Shirou, has a random encounter for lunch with four supporting characters... The neurotic Noda... http://i1249.photobu...

More bottom-feeder questions: 1. How are the -release.apk, -release-unaligned.apk, -release-unsigned.apk different from one another? I send the -release.apk to my tablet and it worked fine. 2. Our flagship VN builds into a 427M winzip file. The Android apk is 594M. Is this growth typical? 3. Is it p...

Did you install the android drivers for your device? The drivers (three of them) autoloaded when I plugged in the Galaxy Tablet. I'm giving thought to a general restart of it and my computer then hooking things back up for another try. I'll let you know in a few hours (have to put on "dad"...

The build for "The Question" is a mere 8.4M...so that should not be a problem. I've since also tried with my daughter's Galaxy tablet, with no joy there, either. Perhaps the computer or software not recognize that something is plugged in? In other news, I've found that unless I delete what...